Ex-inmate: $1.4M doesn't make up for lost time
HOUSTON
Anthony Graves said Wednesday he's grateful Gov. Rick Perry
signed legislation allowing him to receive compensation that has
been withheld because of the wording in the order exonerating him.
But he says having the measure become law "wasn't like I hit the
lottery."
A special prosecutor last year declared the 45-year-old Graves
innocent in the 1992 deaths of a grandmother and five children in
Somerville.
However, because his exoneration order lacked the phrase
"actual innocence," he wasn't able to take advantage of a 2009
Texas law that gives exonerees $80,000 for every year they were
wrongly imprisoned.
